Glover and Stanning are unbeaten since London 2012, while the men’s four and eight, featuring Peter Reed and Andy Triggs Hodge, are also tipped for gold.

A new schedule is to follow and double Olympic champion James Cracknell is interested to see what happens next.

Charlotte Taylor and Katherine Copeland won gold at European Rowing Championships in Poland in May 2015Credit:
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"Rowers are not stupid, they will have watched yesterday's rowing, where the Serbian crew capsized, and they know that if people were falling then World Rowing aren't going to send them out with the conditions worse today," he said.

"It's more what happens now. Tomorrow's forecast is the same, and if they cancel again, you will have the prospect of repechages and semi-finals on the same day. It creates a world of problems.

"As a rower, you just have to deal with it. It's the same for everyone, and you can't let it affect you."

Other medal hopes come from Kath Copeland, who returns in the lightweight double, with Charlotte Taylor, hopeful of another medal despite failing to reach the final of the European Championships.

Other contenders include the men’s lightweight double, Will Fletcher and Richard Chambers, the 2015 world silver medallists, along with the lightweight four, Peter Chambers and Chris Bartley, Alan Campbell in the single, the women’s eight, and Alan Sinclair and Stewart Innes as the men’s paircorrect – who have made a late dash at the pair.